ITT Sound Off: War Presidents Win
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Protests in Venezuela have erupted after opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for the support of armed forces to overthrow Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Attorney General William Barr testified in front of the Senate about his handling of the Mueller report, and the Trump administration’s immigration policies left two more migrant children dead this week. Maria and guest co-host All-Star Imara Jones sound off on the latest news of the week.
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- What is the U.S. role in Venezuela? Read this analysis of the politics in Venezuela, via The New York Times.
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| 0:25.0 | Hey what's up. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to In The Thick, I'm Mariano Jose. |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm Amara Jones. |
| 0:32.0 | This is In The thick sound off. Yes, Amara it is and you are here because my usual co-anchor, the fabulous |
| 0:40.9 | Gullior Ricardo Barilla is on vacation with his family. Where? The a lot of going on in the whole wide world. |
| 0:53.2 | We'll talk about domestic issues in a second, another day, right? |
| 0:56.8 | But you know, a lot of us have been really worried about what's happening in terms of Venezuela, just in terms of people's safety. |
| 1:05.5 | Just a quick update, so the opposition leader, Juan Guaido, basically called for what he named |
| 1:11.3 | Operation Libertad, which was this call to kind of have the armed forces stand |
| 1:16.8 | up and overthrow Maduro. |
| 1:19.5 | And this is what he had to say. |
| 1:20.8 | The Cé said definitive that the |
| 1:22.0 | Surpasion, in peso I. he had to say. The C.C. is the |
| 1:25.0 | with all the Pueblo of Venezuela, |
| 1:27.0 | Oi, the force is more clearly |
| 1:29.0 | is stand of the Pueblo, |
| 1:31.0 | the Pueblo is stan of the constitution, |
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